To wonder why my teen is stealing sugar?

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One of my kids (both teens) is stealing the sugar. I don't know which one.

I noticed a brand new bag of sugar had vanished last week, I assumed it had been spilled by one of the kids who had failed to mention it. Actually that didn't really make sense at the time because neither of them is capable of cleaning a bag of sugar so well. Either way I forgot all about it.

Now a second bag has disappeared.

It's not me, its not DH. Nobody else has had access.

What the fuckity fuck is going on?

I used to eat sugar straight out of the bag as a teen. And icing sugar, too - which actually sticks to the back of your throat and makes you cough. My 12 year old friends and I were also convinced that if you drank sips of cake flavouring (almond essence) you would get drunk.

Is making alcohol a real thing? I mean surely it would be more hassle than its worth?

A friend who worked in Saudi said the supermarkets sell sugar next to fruit next to dustbins - it's known as Jedda Gin.

This thread is awesome.
When my son sorted his room out when he left for uni, he brought down the crockery that I didn’t know I had missed. It was about 7 plates and 6 bowls. I had never seen them in his room so was completely perplexed

Now I know.
In the wardrobe.

He is not fussed about sugar so think I have missed that issue.

Placemarking for the heads up in ten years time....I have time to prepare

Blatantly placemarking

My mother still doesn't know where three of her mugs disappeared to. I had hidden them in the wardrobe as a teenager and by the time I rediscovered them, it was too late to return them to the kitchen without questions. So the logical thing was to throw them out.

That's quite ok @shushpenfold, it is bloody ridiculous! It's not that the soft brown sugar is naicer though, just more pleasing to eat. I have done it with granulated, but it's a lot less satisisfying. It does have a bit of an overheard at waitrose feel to it though... You laugh away, I'm well aware of how absurd it is.

I'm with Prepper. Or JC Jam. Or Ket. Or rockets. Or sugar sarnies.
BUT I NEED TO KNOW....

Could you put a hole in the bag and follow the trail?

No one cuts drugs with sugar ffs

I've seen it on weed to make it heavier, but nothing else. Teething powder generally I'd have thought, or flour. Not granulated sugar, too crunchy.

I love this.
You need to inform oldest that thousands of people are waiting on him being truthful so he'd best cough up the info.

dippingmytoesin it’s actually really common to cut ket with sugar, ket looks almost exactly the same

I had a pet mould named Albert when I was a student, he lived on the kitchen windowsil until the halls cleaner found him and threw him away. 😢
Is anyone in the house a mechanic (or doing mechanics nvq etc)? My ex used to mix granulated sugar with washing up liquid to get the oil off of his hands.
Final suggestion is he's making you a lovely big bottle of sloe gin for Christmas!

Not one dealer I unfortunately know would cut even ket with sugar.

You can tell the majority of the time.

Mouldy plates in drawers? Pah, that's nothing! When we were at uni we were organising a big party and cleared out everything from the downstairs bedrooms and locked everything upstairs (we thought we wuz v. clever students!). The girl that had the other downstairs bedroom had given us permission to use her room so long as we cleared everything out/put it all back as she was going to be away that weekend. We pulled a suitcase down from the top of her wardrobe and opened it, thinking we could put stuff inside to carry upstairs, only to find a large saucepan full of mould! Eeuuww! (Sorry, no help with the sugar issue!)

Pet moulds are a thing? Voms

My money's on pyrotechnics. If so, they need to stop because what was a bit of dangerous fun in my day is now "terrorism!" and about a dozen kinds of illegal. Especially if you're non-white; the police and CPS will absolutely be biased.

OP I need to know the deal with the sugar!

This has both perplexed and amused me greatly this morning

Love the ignorance about drugs on this thread

No, you wouldn’t cut ketamine, cocaine, or any other drug with sugar. The first thing anyone does is have a taste and nothing would signal a drug cut with other substances as one that tastes sweet.

Amazing thread - every day is a school day....

@CoteDAzur I am very ignorant about drugs. It's not a fact I'm ashamed of, nor proud of, it's just how it is. I'm an ancient parent and rarely saw anything other than cannabis when I was young.

Any advice how to get myself up to speed?

how much ketamine would you have to need 2 bags of sugar to cut it with??!!! (it's not ketamine)

@TheSnorkMaidenReturns talk to frank. He’s on google. Good starting point 👃🏻😂

... and I truly hope you intended the pun